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Kentucky Officials "Changed Votes At Voting Machines"
The indispensible jamie found a report out of Kentucky of exactly the kind of shenanigans that voting-transparency advocates have been warning about: a circuit court judge, a county clerk, and election officials are among eight people indicted for gaming elections in 2002, 2004, and 2006. As described in the indictment (PDF), the election officials divvied up money intended to buy votes and then changed votes on the county's (popular, unverifiable) ES&S touch-screen voting systems, affecting the outcome of elections at the local, state, and federal levels.
I suspect that in elections from 2000 to 2006, the standards of democracy in the US fell to below what we would consider acceptable in emerging democracies. Where there would be monitoring from outside observers.
Not to make this more political than it will be, but do we know what direction those stolen votes went? Do we know how much this influenced the national vote?
Another thing I did not find in TFA: how was this uncovered?
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"That's why it's critical that this be handled harshly. When the guardians deliberately attack their charges, the penalties must be severe."
The crimes by government against the people can not be tolerated. They are worse than mere murder (other than mass murder) because they damage us all. Likewise, massive financial crimes damage all of us.
People such as election fraudsters and Bernard Madoff should be executed (and not by silly lethal injection) in public. Hanging would do fine.
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well a good treasurer doesn't pay out money he don't have to... right...
Please. If you can't see the problem in having a Tax Cheat as head of the IRS, then you're hopeless.